THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

Saturday, August 27, 2016

They built towering new cities in China. Now they're

Los Angeles real estate has long attracted foreign investment, be it from Japan, Canada and South Korea. But no one is building from the ground up the way the Chinese are today.

Chinese developers such as Greenland, Oceanwide and Shenzhen Hazens are pouring billions into the neighborhood, adding thousands of new residential units in soaring skyscrapers that will fundamentally change the city’s skyline. Since 2014, Chinese developers have been involved in at least seven of 18 land deals downtown in excess of $19 million, according to real estate firm Transwestern.

“When all these megaprojects are finished, they’re going to have to reshoot the postcard picture of downtown L.A.,” said Mark Tarczynski, executive vice president for Colliers International’s L.A. office.

By investing in Los Angeles, the builders are staking downtown’s revival closer to the Chinese economy. A sizable share of home buyers for the new downtown developments are expected to come from China, where many in the middle and upper class are looking to the perceived safety of foreign real estate to diversify their wealth. That trend has been exacerbated by the uncertainty of China’s slowing economy.

The building boom is something of a showcase for Chinese real estate companies, which are willing to pay a premium toestablish themselves as global brands. The foray overseas has also demonstrated the many differences between building in both countries — an experience both sides will need to learn from if the U.S. is to remain a prime destination for Chinese capital.

“The speed is so dramatically different in China,” said Sonnet Hui, executive project director for Shenzhen Hazens, which is building a $700-million mixed-use project across from Staples Center. “There’s a lot of planning and study here, whereas in China it’s just ‘Let’s go, let’s go.’ ”

Before the Chinese landed, things were going nowhere at a 6-acre site on the corner of W. 8th Street and the Harbor Freeway. Plans to develop the parcel, which had been a parking lot, were scuttled by one economic downturn after another.

Then in 2014, Shanghai’s Greenland paid $150 million for the plot and announced plans to build a “city within a city” with about 70,000 square feet of retail space, an 18-story boutique hotel and 1,500 residential units in three condo towers, some with ocean views. They priced properties at $500,000 for the lowest end to $6.9 million for the premier penthouses.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

When completed in 2018, the $1-billion project will require a total of 300,000 tons of concrete and 650,000 square feet of glass, much of it in Greenland’s namesake color.

“They need a certain amount of scale to make it worth their while,” said Laurie Lustig-Bower, executive vice president at CBRE and broker for the Metropolis land deal. “Of course, what we consider large is not relatively large to them coming from China.”

When the chairman of Greenland came to visit Metropolis, it was the first time he didn’t require a car to traverse one of his building sites, an executive told Tony Natsis, a partner at Allen Matkins and chairman of the law firm's real estate practice.

“Their ability to build on this scale is completely child’s play to them,” Natsis said.

Around the same time Greenland bought its site, Oceanwide Holdings, another Chinese real estate giant, paid $174.8 million for a 4.6-acre site across from Staples Center. The Beijing-based builder is in the early stages of another $1-billion mixed-use project, this one with nearly 170,000 square feet of retail space, a luxury hotel and two sleek condo towers that together will offer more than 500 residences.

In a design flourish popular in China, a massive LED screen will wrap the west facing side of Oceanwide Plaza overlooking Figueroa Street. The project is set to open by the end of 2018.

We buy it at the right time and we build right away.— Thomas Feng, Oceanwide Plazaâs chief executive and president

Across the street are plans for an almost equally extravagant mixed-use development on the current Luxe City Center Hotel site. Shenzhen Hazens is proposing razing the hotel for a pair of gleaming condo towers and a W Hotel steps away from the arena.

“Our chairman [Yan Fuer] is a big basketball fan and went to a game at Staples Center and saw the property and said ‘I want that property,’ ” said Hui, the project’s director.

Shenzhen Hazens paid $104 million for the 2.5-acre site. The $925.11 paid per square foot is the highest of any major land purchase in the area since 2014, according to Transwestern.

The next three highest prices per square foot in the last two years also belong to Chinese buyers. The Greenland, Oceanwide and Shenzhen Hazens developments represent three of the four most expensive land deals downtown, and they highlight the Chinese appetite for splashy and ambitious projects.

“The Chinese can come in with a lot of money and execute deals quickly,” said Michael Soto, an analyst for Transwestern.

Meanwhile, Lifan Group, a motorcycle manufacturer from the Western Chinese metropolis of Chongqing, paid more than $19 million for a former union hall at the intersection of West 7th and Witmer streets. Naturally, it’s for another apartment high-rise.

Chinese developers can afford to outbid the competition in markets like L.A. because they are willing to wait longer than most to reap returns and can rely on both local and Chinese-based home buyers to scoop up their condos. It’s also advantageous to move capital overseas to hedge against inflation and a weakening Chinese renminbi.

“They look at risk a lot differently because of these factors that relate to what’s going on in China and what’s going on with their currency,” said Tarczynski of Colliers International.

After a boom period that saw property values skyrocket, China’s real estate market has quieted down. Deep-pocketed investors, having exhausted Beijing and Shanghai, looked to foreign markets like Vancouver, Canada; Sydney, Australia; and the San Gabriel Valley to park their cash (some in the belief that China’s economic miracle was due for a reckoning).

Chinese developers followed in kind by building overseas, figuring their brand appeal would extend beyond its borders. Greenland, for example, has developments in Australia, Canada, Malaysia, South Korea, Germany and Spain in addition to U.S. projects in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

That dependence on Chinese buyers could just as easily become a source of risk. Some downtown L.A. residents have expressed concern that Chinese investors will leave their properties empty — a phenomenon common in China and antithetical to the dense urban neighborhood many local boosters have long championed.

Some Chinese developers in L.A. are expecting Chinese buyers to constitute up to 40% of their clients. As a result, they could be beholden to the whims of Chinese regulators who are currently making it harder to get cash out of China — a move prompted by a steep decline in the country’s foreign exchange reserves. That has led to the first drop in Chinese home-buying activity in the U.S. this year since 2011, according to the National Assn. of Realtors.

Chinese firms in L.A. may have to rely on domestic buyers more than they had planned. If so, they’ll have to hope that the surge in construction downtown won’t result in a glut of condos and apartments.

There are 6,260 apartments under construction downtown by all developers, not just Chinese, according to Transwestern. When completed, that will boost the number of existing homes in the neighborhood by 15% to more than 40,000. Thousands more units are planned.

That risk has already steered some major Chinese developers such as Gemdale to forgo downtown and build in Hollywood instead.

“What we have experienced in China is that when there is too much supply coming to the same place, then there will be a stop in investment,” said Jason Zhu, chief executive of Gemdale’s U.S. subsidiary.

Zhu said Gemdale had the luxury of studying the U.S. real estate market for years before making a move.

But for most builders, it has been a steep learning curve. That’s especially true when it comes to the city’s permitting process for building — something that L.A. officials recently streamlined but is considered too time-consuming by the Chinese.

“Chinese developers are not into buying land, letting it sit there for years and waiting for better times,” said Thomas Feng, Oceanwide Plaza’s chief executive and president. “We buy it at the right time and we build right away.”

Part of that disconnect is over safety and planning, which is more stringent in the U.S. But it also underscores the different role real estate plays in the world’s second-largest economy. In China, there’s no real property tax, so local governments rely on land sales for more than a quarter of their revenue. That gives them every incentive to expedite real estate development. (It’s one of the reasons why a 57-story skyscraper can be built in 19 days in China).

That’s not how things are moving in L.A. for Shenzhen Hazens, which still hasn’t broken ground two years after purchasing its land across from Staples Center. The company is still grappling with getting its project entitled.

Raymond Chan, a Los Angeles deputy mayor for economic development who headed the city’s Department of Building and Safety when many of the downtown Chinese projects were first announced, said the city “threw the book” at Shenzhen Hazens at first. Since then, regulators have been more accommodating, seeking ways for the builder to meet all the city’s requirements. The company hopes to have the entitlement completed by early next year.

“It’s been an education,” said Hui of Shenzhen Hazens. “That’s why we have so many attorneys and consultants. Every decision we make is so that we follow U.S. law to a T. … I think the city recognizes that.”

"He
(Trump) is able to get a hearing because millions of people are being
driven into economic insecurity and poverty while the rich and
the super-rich continue to amass obscene levels
of wealth. He is able with some success to divert mass discontent
along reactionary nationalist and racialist channels precisely because what passes for the
“left” in American politics, anchor by the Democratic
Party, has moved ever further to the right, culminating in the
Obama administration which has presided over endless war and
an unprecedented redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the
top of the economic ladder."

GLOBALIST

HILLARY’S PROMISE TO ILLEGALS: Amnesty,
legalization of Mexico’s looting, millions more American jobs and billions more
in welfare…. Just to keep wages DEPRESSED.

A Hillary victory means there won’t be a departure; merely a
doubling-down by the elite, as they act with renewed zest to secure their
interests -- versus the national welfare. The Great Imposition -- a war waged
on average Americans -- will continue with awful consequences. J. ROBERT SMITH - THE
AMERICAN THINKER.COM

“Forget the arrogance and
corruption -- $153 million in Clinton family speaking fees from 2001, mainly
bribes during her State Department years. Forget the lies, the lies about lies,
and the perjury. Forget the security breaches. Forget enabling America’s most
prominent sexual predator. Forget the trail of bodies stretching from Little
Rock to Benghazi. Forget every scandal from Whitewater to deleted e-mails.
Forget all of it.”

The
Clintons have been a criminal enterprise since they came to power in
Arkansas. The list of scandals they have generated is long and
tawdry. Their principal goal then and now has always been to enrich
themselves. They never once had a moral compunction about lying,
cheating, selling, and stealing their way to wealth. They are the Perons
of America. They eventually set up a "foundation" and the
money kept rolling in.

Chelsea lives in a $11 million dollar New York City condo her
parents bought with their bribes for speeches money.

The Clinton phony charity foundation has paid out less than $9
million out of the hundreds of millions they have sucked in from Obama’s crony
banksters, Muslim dictators whom Hillary served as Secretary of State and
criminal billionaires Billary has long known on a first name basis.

Let’s work together to save this nation from these three low-life
scumbag parasites!

DANCING WITH DICTATORS....
BOTH THE CLINTONS ARE EXPERT DANCERS!

Hillary’s Russian connection

“Facilitating strategic technology
transfer in return for money is an old Clinton game. The Chinese bought
their way to access of considerable space technology when Bill Clinton was
president. Remember Charlie Trie, Loral, and the rest of the crew?”

OBAMA’S GIFT TO HILLARIA:

OPEN BORDERS AND A MILLION MEXICAN CRIMINAL LINNING
UP TO VOTE FOR MORE LA RAZA SUPREMACY!

Most Americans (legals) would be appalled to know
that from day one the Obomb has funded the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA
“The Race” with U.S. tax dollars and this racist party has operated out of the
white house under LA RAZA V.P. Cecilia Munoz.

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OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS:
You were wondering how many jobs went to illegals and how well Obama’s crony
banksters have done???

The sputtering economic recovering under President Obama, the last
to follow a major recession, has fallen way short of the average recovery and
ranks as the worst since the 1930s Great Depression, according to a new report.

Had the recovery under Obama been the average of the 11 since the
Depression, according to the report, family incomes would be $17,000 higher,
six million fewer Americans would be in poverty, and there would be six million
more jobs.

"The decline in homeownership
is one sign of the deep social crisis in the United States. As rents
and housing costs have soared, spurred on by financial speculation that
has enriched the ruling elites, incomes and jobs for most Americans
have shriveled."

OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
TO SERVE THE SUPER RICH: The slow and painful death of America

"These figures present a scathing
indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest
country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy.
They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and
all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty that dominates American
society."

“This study follows reports released over the past several months
documenting rising mortality rates among US workers due to drug addiction and
suicide, high rates of infant mortality, an overall leveling off of life
expectancy, and a growing gap between the life expectancy of the bottom rung of
income earners compared to those at the top.”

Clinton, in the guise of a “jobs” and “infrastructure” program,
promoted yet another scheme to hand out tax cuts and other incentives for
companies to hire workers at poverty-level wages, with the trade unions brought
in to keep the workers in line in return for a cut in the spoils.

OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
FOR THE RICH: On behalf of bankster-owned Barack Obama, Yellen vows to the rich
and crony banksters that they will be protected and subsidized with no strings
bailouts during the next looming economic meltdown around the corner from
elections.

“In fact, these policies have
already produced financial and asset bubbles that are unsustainable, and there
are increasing signs of financial instability and crisis. There are growing
warnings that the spread of negative interest rates is leading to a new financial
meltdown even worse than the disaster that struck eight years ago.”

"Republicans should
call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But
more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to
offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow
Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."

THE OBAMA-CLINTON CONSPIRACY TO DEREGULATE THEIR
CRONY BIG BANKSTERS AND UNLEASH THEM FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF DEVASTATING LOOTING
AND BAILOUTS!

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MILLIONS OF AMERICAN
JOBS HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS ALONG WITH BILLIONS IN WELFARE.... AND THE PARTY
HAS JUST BEGUN!

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
PLATFORM:

NO DAMNED LEGAL NEED
APPLY!

VIVA
LA RAZA FASCISM? THEN VOTE DEM!

"Republicans should
call for lower immigration to stop the Democrat voter recruitment. But
more importantly, all Americans should call for lower immigration in order to
offer a better opportunity of finding jobs for those millions of their fellow
Americans of all political persuasions who would like to work."

America’s Looming Economic Armageddon
– Can the Rich Get Even Richer During the Meltdown

OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS
FOR THE RICH: On behalf of bankster-owned Barack Obama, Yellen vows to the rich
and crony banksters that they will be protected and subsidized with no strings
bailouts during the next looming economic meltdown around the corner from
elections.

“In fact, these policies have
already produced financial and asset bubbles that are unsustainable, and there
are increasing signs of financial instability and crisis. There are growing
warnings that the spread of negative interest rates is leading to a new financial
meltdown even worse than the disaster that struck eight years ago.”

“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan THE AMERICAN THINKER.com

30 REASONS FOR 30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR HILLARY!

THE UGLY, SORDID, CORRUPT AND SLEAZY LIFE OF BILLARY AND HILLARY
CLINTON:Thirty
reasons not to vote for Hillary